Camel Spitting

Friday, June 26, 2009

Good News!

If you’re a human camel, you’ll find that one of the most beneficial “perks” to living in a city is the fact that you can openly and freely spit wherever the hell you want and no one seems to bat an eyelash.

For someone like me however, I find it disgustingly repulsive, barbaric, horrendous, and nauseating.

Not to mention…totally unsanitary.

It's like watching a National Geographic film on the day in the life of a Neanderthal man.

You have no idea how much fun it is to walk the city pavements while having to play “hop-scotch” between the wads of mucous membranes.

I’ve seen quite a few "delicate lady-camels" spitting while walking down the street. I once saw a woman on the opposite side of the street spit a stream so long…it would have made a camel severely envious. I actually did a double take because I could not believe my eyes.

(I kid you not)

In a one block radius, I once counted nine droppings of phlegm hacks.

It was hideous!

“Excuse me cave people, but have you ever heard of something called a Kleenex?”

I mean even my cat would have the common courtesy to find a secluded corner to spit out a fur ball.

Maybe this putrid act is actually a part of human nature and I somehow have a missing chromosome.

But quite frankly, I don’t get it.

Why would anyone with a functioning brain, think they had the right to freely share their body fluids on a city sidewalk?

Honestly…it totally puzzles me.

Maybe I should start volunteering on my days off by standing on the street corners; handing out complimentary tissues.

Or better yet…

…maybe I should start knitting some cute and festive camel spit-guards…

42 comments

Yeah, but **YOU**, my dear Sir Knighted Ron Connery, are not in the *Capital* of spit shooters. They even do it while driving and while smoking. Yeah, boyeeeeee, the pickins are USDA Grade A Choice all right...NOT!

ROFLMAO...I have never thought of this before but it is so true. And to make it worse, you should see the women spit right before they get on the bus it just disgusts me. Get Knitting Man...and do it quick. You could make a fortune...just make sure you make the ones you want to sell over here with a Hawaiian motif...LOL

Saw a man once blow his nose into the street..seriously, I KID YOU NOT!he held two fingers to one nostril and then let it fly..a stream of boogers..It was so gross, I have not forgotten it, and it was years agoand guess what?it was in Philly!LOLmaybe it's something in the water?

Public spitting now that is spiritual. I really never gave it much thought. But how correct you are! When anyone male or female let's go a lunger in public it is downright unsanitary. To be part of this liquid wonder called spit world has got to be the most primitive part of our existence. That and walking behind some one who let's go a giant smelly fart and they continue to jaunt along a little lighter on the gas index. Now a woman who spits and farts at the same time is she the bomb or what?If you have to spit or get rid of that foreign substance that is in your lungs, throat etc. carry a tissue or hankerchief and let go into that and not on the surface of this planet. If you have to fart please make sure you are alone and then you can wallow in your own aroma for awhile and no one will be the worst for it.Ron, only you can come up with these off the wall posts and for that I will spit a watermelon seed the distance of a 1st down and say well done.Have a wonderful weekend.Phil Phelgm

You know, Ron, I can't even whistle, much less curl my tongue or spit. Must be an undeveloped mouth or something. I suppose I make up for it on the aptly-titled "gas index." But then again, my emissions, while sulfurous, aren't turning asphalt into a Slip-n-Slide.

See, in this little bitty town there's still a law on the books for spitting on the sidewalk. No foolin'.. Not that they don't spit 'round these parts--I'm clear they do. (ACK!!) It's very rare that I ever haffta avoid a....spitty thingy.I'm thankful for that.Cuz they'd be dealing in upchucky things next to it. LOL

Makes me wonder if there's a law on the book for upchucking on sidewalks around here. LOLOL

BRAVO to your itty bitty town for still enforcing the law on spitting!!!

Many years ago when I was living in NYC, I DO remember seeing NO SPITTING signs in the subways. Philly has no such signs. However, Philly is like a FREE TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT city. There are rules and laws...but no one enforces them.

Sorry to say, ya'll, but Paris MUST be the "spit capital" of Europe!!! It is soooo disgusting! I hate it, I hate haven't to mind my way around making sure not to step in huge green or yellow gucky globs of phlegm! It's sooo disgusting that it almost makes me gag sometimes and want to PUKEEEE just so that it will cover up the spit!! In fact, it's not just the spit, but when the heck is in the spit that is gross, to!! YUCKKK!!! Haven't these neanderthals heard of a kleenex? It's EVERYWHERE on the ground here... It may be culturally acceptable to spit in some nations but in my book, a civilized world should NOT have spit on the streets! YUCCCCCKKKKK!!That's my venting... Ron, I'm going to post some of what you wrote and link it to your blog, hope you don't mind, but this is the post I've been meaning to write for the past three years....Thanks so much for sharing your opinion about this with us... we're of the same mind here!Hugs from Antony (Now back in the Paris area and leaving France and SPIT for sun, surf and NOOOO SPIT on 1 July!!!)

PS, I just read the comment about a man blowing his nose on the street and EWWWWWWWW, SOOOO GROSSSSS!! What ARE these people, anyways?I just wanted to add to this that everywhere I go on the metro, there is usually always ONE darn nose picker who digs for gold as if it were California in 1848! No joke.... What's up with that? I mean, they don't try to hide it, they dig, pick, inspect and flick... I mean, REALLY, peeps, get a Kleenex and don't EVER make me see this gross thing again!!!

I've been meaning to write this post for awhile now, and since it's summertime I've been noticing it more and more. For some reason I don't seem to see it as much during the winter months. Maybe it has something to do with the heat.

Spitting in public has always puzzled me. I don't get it?!?!?! WHY?????????

Anyway, it felt good to vent about it. And I'm seeing (through comments) that it happenes all over the world and bothers A LOT of us!

And no...I don't mind you using this post at all on your blog. Go for it! You and I will be "anti-spit activists."

HA!

Hey, that's right...you're heading out to California!! WOW...July 1st! That's only a few days away! Have a wonderful time, Leesa! And just think....you won't have to see any spitting!

Living in the burbs now the amount of phlegm coated streets I come across has greatly reduced. Living in London, the piles of dog poop were worse. They seem to have no problem allowing their canines to leave steaming piles everywhere people walk. I have to say that was horrible.

WOW...that's weird to here about the piles of dog poop you saw in London!?! I will occasionally see that here in Philly, but most people carry plastic bags with them while walking their dogs - especially in the parks.

You'll NEVER guess what??!!! No sorry did you and I open the topic but I saw the NOTORIOUS... NOSE BLOWING in the streets of Antony (where I live) just yesterday!!!!!! Across the street from where I was standing (inside a boutique), I turned my head in correspondence with a VERY LOUD and strange noise... Then, at that very second, my gaze fixed itself on a man blowing his nose onto the sidewalk just about 20 feet from where I was standing... I yelled at him directly... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! GROSS!!! OMG, that's SOOO DISGUSTING! Well, I yelled it right at him... AND in English, too...He didn't really react but just moved on.... When I turned back around, a lady in the store next to me had a sheer look of horror and disgust on her face.. Yep, she saw it, too! Sooo, I started to talk to her about it... and about what you wrote and what I wrote on our blogs ... She said it was the very first time she had ever seen that... Mine, too!!

i can't stand men who spit on the ground and any lady that spits isn't a lady. okay there might be a time when you have more cold in your mouth that saliva, you get a pass...just don't make it a practice.

want to know something really gross? I work in Public Health, so we get all the nasty P.H. stats, and our lovely town has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis in the entire free world. Those really giant dinnerplate-sized loogies?